Habeas corpus is a legal procedure that lets a detained person make a court test whether the government has lawful grounds to hold them. It is often called the Great Writ.
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Magna Carta became a symbol of liberty through repeated reissue and public reading in the 13th century, then through Coke's 17th-century reinterpretation and later political use.
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Botanically a tomato is a fruit; in cooking and under US customs law it is a vegetable. The Supreme Court ruled in 1893 because a tariff taxed vegetables but not fruit.
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